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>
> Hi,
> I'm not exactly a member of ilug-cal,but am Rajarshi's brother,we
> share the same email address (not anymore),so i get to see the ilugs
> going-ons.
> I have 2 problems a)could anyone tell me the name of a pop3 server
> located on the PCQ Redhat cdroms.
I do not quite understand that. Some of the local guys out there may
be able to help.
> b)sendmail is running as server,yet it deferrs sending of mail to
> 127.0.0.1 or any non-local address.When i clear the mailque with sendmail
> -q -v ,i see it says 'name-server timeout',i am using /etc/hosts and in
> nsswitch.conf for 'host' entry i have file as the first entry next to it
> i.e
> host files [NOTFOUND=return]
> Please help.Thanka
> sapsi
This is how I see it - Your mail agent is trying to resolve an
address for the non-local address that you have specified for all
those mails that got queued. However, since your nswitch.conf
has only the "files" directive, if the address of that foreign
FQDN is not found within the /etc/hosts file, the mail agent
thinks that the name server has timed out and returns; it *does
not* go and actually do a nameserver lookup.
You should probably put this instead of your "host" directive into
your nsswitch.conf file -
hosts: files nisplus nis dns
and see if this helps. However, for this to work your
/etc/resolv.conf should be setup properly with a responsible name
server.
Hope this helps.
-amlan.
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Amlan Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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